Nature

The elephant who recognised herself

In 2006, an Asian elephant named Happy touched a mark on her own head while looking in a mirror — proof she understood the reflection was herself, not another elephant. It made elephants the first non-primate confirmed to pass the classic mirror self-recognition test, joining humans, great apes and dolphins on a very short list.

Joshua M. Plotnik, Frans B. M. de Waal & Diana Reiss, Self-recognition in an Asian elephant — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(45), 17053–17057 (2006)

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